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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Oh, alcohol!

Well, I'm officially taking a little break from my social drinking. A whole evening of drinking is equivalent to a whole day's worth of food... and I love drinking! I do think that even with my healthy eating, the drinking was keeping too many calories in my body. I definitely like to drink, I mean, DRINK when I drink... but that really adds up those calories. For example:

So. Imagine I drink my usual 4-6 glasses of wine on a drinking night. And keep in mind they are LARGE glasses of wine, and absolutely not 5oz glasses. That's probably around 1,000 calories just for the alcohol. Or, if I drink five or so ciders... that's around 1,050 calories.

Add to that, after I drink, I always want to eat. It's easier to go to a diner and get breakfast food, or to go to Taco Bell or eat pizza or something.

Cutting out liquor for a while is a very easy way to cut calories. :)

In other news!

I just got back from a 3500 mile, 4-day storm chase. We had a huge cooler with tons of fruit and veg in it, and made healthy choices otherwise when we could (ie: salad & baked potato at wendy's, or subway instead of McDonald's or some other garbage.) -- I also wound up with a 12-hour flu or something after eating some shrimp / baked potato and chips & queso.

I'm doing the "Photogs who Lose it" weight loss group (locally) - and in two weeks I've gone from 171.8 to 169.2. I would like to maintain that loss, around 1 pound per week would be fine with me. Ultimately if I could drop another 10-13 pounds and be between 155 and 159 that'd be amazing. Here's hoping!

I agree...and struggle with this as well! Alcohol is my weakness when i'm trying to really lean out! just like you said, lots of calories and it makes me hungry and my judgement is impaired! but it's pretty tough to give up social drinking when you're out with friends!

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